Sigla of components

LA

Libellus Apologeticus

Pdoct

Prologue to the Speculum Doctrinale

Rmor

Résumé of morale material

Doct

text of the Speculum Doctrinale

In order to distinguish different versions of the components of a speculum, a number is added to the component's siglum, preceded by a hyphen. To indicate a specific redaction, a letter is added to the number. Thus LA-3 is the third version of Libellus Apologeticus.

Key to the manuscripts

Do*

Corresponding books in the printed edition of the Speculum Doctrinale, Douai, 1624.

I

Additional information on the speculum text as present in the manuscript, or on other texts present in the manuscript, or on material damage.

D

Date of the manuscript.

P

Country, region or place of production; if available, information on the scribe(s) of the manuscript.

O

Medieval and pre-modern owners of the manuscript.

L

Hyperlink to digital facsimiles of the manuscript.

R

Reference to manuscripts listed in other parts of the inventory, with which this manuscript at the time of its production constituted a set of volumes. Manuscripts that have been collected into a set by a single medieval collector (library) within several decades, are indicated with cf.

This inventory is limited to manuscripts that contain at least one book of the Speculum Doctrinale.

Manuscripts of the Speculum Doctrinale

Introduction

This section on the surviving manuscripts of the Speculum Doctrinale is related to the introduction into the genesis of the Speculum Doctrinale (see Overview of genesis) and its components (see Components). It extends the general introduction into the manuscript inventory of the Speculum Maius (see Manuscripts of the Speculum Maius).

The sigla used for the surviving manuscripts of the Speculum Doctrinale are derived from the inventory in Hans Voorbij, Het 'Speculum Historiale' van Vincent van Beauvais, Groningen 1991, Appendix 2.2, pp. 335-337, and gradually expanded later additions occurring.

Earlier versions of this list of surviving manuscripts of the Speculum Doctrinale mentioned 6 more manuscripts. Irene Villarroel Fernández (De enciclopedia a florilegio: la transmisión de los libros V y VI del "Speculum doctrinale" de Vicente de Beauvais. Madrid 2016 (Ph.D., Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2015). [online available]) shows that these 6 manuscripts do not contain the original text of the Speculum Doctrinale. They contain instead a florilegium that is derived from books V and VI of the Speculum Doctrinale. For this reason, these 6 manuscripts have been moved to the page on manuscripts containing anonymous abbreviations and adaptations of the Speculum Maius.

The following components make up the Speculum Doctrinale (Do):

Text of the Doctrinale (Doct) consisting of 17 books, numbered as 2-18.

List of surviving manuscripts

19 surviving manuscripts of the Speculum Doctrinale are known today.
7 of these manuscripts contain only books V and VI, which deal with monastica. The study by Irene Villarroel Fernández shows that these 7 manuscripts constitute a separate branch of the manuscript tradition of the Speculum Doctrinale.

I: Originally this was a composite volume containing both incunabulum printings and hand written texts. The printed parts, containing the Historia Bohemica by Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini, are kept separately nowadays. The manuscript part also contains, among others, texts by Baptista Spagnuoli Mantuanus and St. Augustine as well as treatises dealing with Jerome of Prague.

D: Early 16th century, and (fols. 146r-151v) middle of the 15th century.

O: Probably originating from Czechia; in 1671 incorporated into the library of the Collegium Pazmanianum S.J. at Vienna, following a note in the incunabulum part of the original volume (Collegij Pazmaniani Sub Cura P. P. Societatis Jesu Viennae fundati Catalogo inscriptus 1671); University library at Budapest since the 1780's.

I: The text belongs to the second part of a composite manuscript consisting of 3 parts, dating to the 14th and 15th centuries. This second part also contains Auctoritates sanctorum de virtutibus et vitiis secundum ordinem alphabeti, ps.-Vincent of Beauvais De fructibus penitentie, and an alphabetical index to books V and VI of the Speculum Doctrinale.